cite jardin

i'm going around and around about where my business should be...should i be a trailblazer and set up shop in beautiful garden city? if anyone ever reads this, i have a joke for you:

garden city : boise

vatican : rome

are you picturing it? garden city, a beautiful ancient walled city with priceless works of art frescoed on its ceilings. um, not so much. it's one big giant trailer park, but it's changing. and it IS a city within a city, which i find amusing to say the least.

i feel like i have missed so many opportunities to be a part of something BIG--so many cases of being in the right place at the wrong time...leaving just before the renaissance. olympia, williamsburg, nampa...or maybe i was in the right place at the right time, just not doing the right thing. hello!? i think i may have just unlocked a very huge piece of my lifelong problem--i have NEVER been tapped into my possibilities, and so always in retrospect, i see what could have been. it's not that places change and create opportunities for me. i change and create opportunities for me. so now: i am in the right place, at the right time. this is my mantra for today. welcome to my self-help-sewing blog. so much fun for you, dear imaginary reader.

dreaming in cocca

i just stumbled on the website for cocca, and i'm totally floored, envious, inspired and sad that i will probably never get to go there. i don't even know what city it's in because the site is in japanese. but these photos speak my language. my shop will undoubtedly be smaller and a bit more cluttered with this and that, but a girl can dream...can't she?

every day a new hummingbird

this is just getting weird. one of my favorite artist/crafters (boygirlparty) just released this--today or yesterday:

animal medicine

hummingbird person

how am i so lucky as to have a dear friend who is a life coach who calls me at just the right moment for me to step out of my office into the warmish drizzle on this strange june day and ask me just the right questions to help me feel so much better about everything? HOW am i so lucky?

this week, i will:

set up a time to sew at my mom's house for 3 hours
work on design stuff (tonight)
plan out how to put shelves in my closets w/ bri

and get this: i am a hummingbird person. i have been noticing hummingbird imagery EVERYWHERE lately (including on my shirt that i'm wearing at this very moment) and wondered what the significance was...and then michele said it today, and then read about it from one of her woo woo animal symbolism books and it is true. i am a hummingbird person. i have yet to see a real live one this year, so if and when i do...watch out. the symbolism is this: hummingbirds drink the sweet nectar of the earth, and make it their work to spread it around. they also have an ability to adapt to any situation, to make the best of what they have. to stop in mid flight, fly up down backwards forwards. i always thought they were cool, but kinda silly looking, like you would see one on some grandma's doormat or something. but clearly i need to get over that. hummmmm.